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Good evening welcome to the annual
meeting of the Belmont Media Center

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and as you will hear me and others refer
to the organization this evening as the B

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M C I am Jeff Messer chair of the board
of directors of the Belmont media center

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as is custom I would like to recognize and
welcome officials who have been elected

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by the citizens of Delmon vice chair
Belmont Board of Selectmen Sammy back to.

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The South. And everyone knows
that behind a good man is

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a good woman and welcome to

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a role as well. Thank you. Next

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I would like to introduce the current members
of the Belmont Media Center board of

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directors and I would just ask them to waive
their hand and hopefully they were in

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the room. It is our vice president.

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Who is our treasurer. Karen
McNeil our circuitry clerk.

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Bernsen who is

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a director I don't see over the. Dems

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in Kaplan. Scott Strafford Scott is
appointed by the school committee to Rob

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Ford. And Carol Yelverton who is
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I would also take this opportunity to
recognize one of the long time supporters and

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a former selectman Angelo frenzy.

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Now here's the sincere part of these
introductions although I do appreciate all the

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all those who are here but what I'd like
to do is recognize the members of our

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highly competent staff first a
full time B M C staff Jeff hands

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a lot of rector. Really just
Stefanos in the control room

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thank you. Adam Dusenberry is our
technical director in directing

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tonight's program. Jeremy
were Reserve who is on the.

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Sound System tonight but is my
staff and our archivist and Patty

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Mahela who is our administrative manager
and Patty is probably going to do.

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All of these individuals are very
knowledgeable and form the foundation of the

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excellence achieved by the Belmont media
center I work with each of them as

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a volunteer from time to time and I am
always impressed with their dedication to

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viewership and those who produce content
here at the B M C also helping us

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achieve success of the following part time
and also valuable contribute is Richard

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Biscoe who works at the front desk
and is on the studio prove. I am

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Resnick who is our archives
assistant thank you and A.J.

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Johnson who is

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a studio production and
editing expert. We're

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also very honored this evening
to have Joe's sister virus

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a senior vice president of the Corporation
for Public bug probably public

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broadcasting as a speaker I just got

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a new glasses now my tongue is broken. He
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the program at which time he will
learn about his process of impressive

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achievements at both. Here in Boston as
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Broadcasting as you know from the program
and prior publish that he would be

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electing new directors this evening replacing
those who terms are ending Lou sure I

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know Bernsen who has and doozie asked the
Glee and with distinction serve the board

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for two terms will be retiring from the
board since laws restrict her ability

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for reelection I am pleased to
announce that has graciously agreed to

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continue her participation on
our marketing committee as

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a volunteer likewise edu one of
our original convene is B.M. C.

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Is is no longer eligible for reappointment
having reached his two full terms and

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has also made outstanding contributions in

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a number of ways particularly in the service
on the Technology Committee as is the

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case with Lucia and has agreed
to continue to serve as

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a member of the technology committee as

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a volunteer loser and as willingness to
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and continue to excellence here at P.M.C.

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Having served as

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a director elected by the membership for
the past three years Erin McNeil plans on

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standing for reelection this evening but
we beat her to the punch. Because of her

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consistent and excellent contributions to
the board over the past three years the

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board and action taken before tonight's
annual meeting as elected Arun as

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a board alerted director effect of the
adjournment of tonight's meeting to serve as

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a tree is filling ads board
appointed directorship I will now

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ask to introduce the candidates for the
two member elected directorships that are

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open this evening. Please come forward.

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Good evening. The current vice
president of the board soon to

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retire stepping down from the board after
nine years on the board I was also on

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the board of conveners that helped write
the bylaws and. Started this place off

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talk about that later but
my role tonight here is to.

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Run the nominations and elections for the
two open board seats that are membership

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elected. And so we have to membership elected
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be filled each with

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a three year term. And we also
we have two candidates. Dolores

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by Dell and Joanna Deval us like
that that right and I will also be

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asking. If there are any candidates that
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to be considered for as part of the vote
so first let me ask how many people

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here are Belmont media center
MEMBERS Show of hands.

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Well there so those of the folks
that can vote in the elections

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so you like the members
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the. Two board slots and any
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Is there anybody interested in running for

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a board seat one of these
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already have your on are other than the
loris and Joanna. All right well that makes

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it easy and I like easy so well number
one I'm going to have each of the

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candidates come up here to me that's say

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a couple things about why you should be
nominated and elected. And then sit down

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so we also have Erin who

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a lot of people don't know and will give
her three minutes. Since she's already

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a Play been appointed. In which
case since we don't have more

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than two nominees and we have two seats I'm
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we're just going to take of was voice
vote by acclimation. To elect the two.

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Board new board members So Doris since you
raised your hand you want to come on up

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you get your two minute
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And I lived in Boston in Belmont for
thirty five years quite attached to the

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community. And I have
been hosting co-hosting

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a program here at Belmont media
center which is what's going on which

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I'm sure you've seen and follow regularly.

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I'm very attached to the community
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be able to. Get through to the people who
live in this community with whatever

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a pivot to use going on whatever we
can promote that useful to us as

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a whole. Thank you. Thank you.

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Where.

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I can you all hear me OK and you have
to lean in. I like to tell jokes so

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maybe I'll start out with the
joke. I take on the class once

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a week I really wish it could be
five days a week I would look

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a lot different than I do right
now and last night on the way out

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a member of the class said do I know you
look familiar and I was like oh I am kind

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of famous in town but so anyway I don't
know if you get the joke but I know I like

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to think I am but I'm not. I love what I
do I've had many opportunities to move

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on from being editor of the Belmont citizen
Herald and I've chosen to stay in my

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role because I love it so much and what I
love about it is the community it's the

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people and Lucia is one of those people
who have had the up to I've had the

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opportunity to meet so many
people. And. It's been three and

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a half years Tony Chanelle was the editor
before me. I had no training coming into

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Belmont I lived in Belmont. Maybe about

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a year when I took the job. So I wasn't
familiar with the town you know wasn't that

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familiar with the town and he didn't fill
me in on anything so I kind of went in

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blind but the number one thing that I learned
from my previous job which was being

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the editor of the Burlington paper was this
all about the community just being the

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voice of the community and so I had
people thanking me for putting their

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announcement in and I was like well did
the previous editor I read your wedding

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announcement didn't get it but you know
that's what it's all about and there's also

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a lot of politics involved which which
I've learned and I've always I always just

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try to be balanced I always just try to be
fair as fair as I possibly can be and I

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met Jeff through the telethon which is the
gifts of hope annual telethon to benefit

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the Belmont food pantry we do the. Week
we've done it this is our fourth year

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working together and. Really so that's
why I've gone to know the Belmont Media

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Center and the staff and I love the staff
I love working with the staff and I sat

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with Jeff one day kind of jokingly I said
I'd love to have my own show and I didn't

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think it would take me seriously but he
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and that was great and I love I still enjoy
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that we started out in

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a little studio in the front which is just
for two people then we moved into the

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big studio and that's this one that we're
in right now and then we started moving

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out in the field we one day I stood out in
front of the Thomas Clark house when it

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was in its temporary location and I
interviewed people walking by. What do you

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think about the Thomas Clark house is it
worth saving it I don't even know what the

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Thomas Clark House is they didn't even know
the history of it but that was just one

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example then we did

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a show at Ruth Foster's house the
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a lot of fun and I hope to continue doing
it and I hope that all the experience

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I've gained as editor of the Belmont says
and how it could be I mean I know that it

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would be come to use being

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a board director for the Belmont media
center and that's just what I love it's all

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about the community and I want to be part
of the future of the moment media center

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I have a lot of

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a lot of ideas that I'd like to to just
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and again people really watch like people
read the paper people really watch the

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cable channels they really do so and it's
an important part of the community and I

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hope it Ingle my to thank
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Are you come on up one of your errand

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Thanks. I just wanted to say thanks to
the membership for. Having I've had the

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option to represent the membership of the
past two years and I appreciate that and

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thanks to the board for their vote of
confidence the last three years have been

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really. A time of we've gotten a lot
done we've really we've really done

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a lot and one of the things
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a strategic planning. Meeting and we've
been working we came up with some goals and

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objectives at that meeting. That we were
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and one of the things that we decided to
do was to be an important source of for

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media literacy education for the schools
so we're moving forward and I want to take

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this opportunity to ask if anybody is
interested in helping out with that work

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please let me know also. We have

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a technology committee that was mentioned
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invitation to them to participate in that
technology committee letting us know what

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your priorities are for. Equipment
video cameras audio etc and in the

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studio. I'd love to hear from you on
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Know this is the part where.
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probably will do this as

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a show here ends. But before you
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chance. Because there's

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a lot having been in this position there's

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a lot of hard work and you're
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a lot of talented wonderful board members
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want media center. Plus
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you after I'm not OK Can I
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Voting members for appointing
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new Did board members for next year. Good.

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He knows OK by acclamation
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I will tell you all
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Policy and strategy. OK
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Thank you and welcome aboard to Doris and
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. Over the past two years
Todd has served as our

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treasurer with distinction I call on top
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Thank you thank you. OK want to thank the
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jazz band How about let's give it up for
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Severinsen right all right sounds everyone
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good good I want to take this opportunity
I do want to thank everybody for coming

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tonight to the annual meeting and also

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a special thanks to all the board members
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together so give yourselves

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a round of applause thank. Me also be
the first to point out what I think's

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a nice little piece of symmetry here
tonight because the genesis of the Belmont

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Media Center began ten years ago with

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a group of conveners that I think Ed alluded
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electing the B M C S very first board of
directors and I happen to be one of those

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conveners along with Ed who soon to be
retiring after filling nine years on the

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board and also our guest speaker
tonight Joseph of ours was also

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a member of those conveners And so with
what happened was back then Ed had to

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recuse himself as a commuter so he could
become eligible to become a become

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a part of the original board of the MC
and then Joseph and I helped make that

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happen along with other kids beaters
on the board as well and here we are

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a whole decade later in the three
of us of reconvened and B. And C.

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Is now in really great standing. Why who
you know ten years ago if you asked me if

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I know whether I could
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a future B M C board member let alone
treasurer for the last four years I would

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have said you're more likely to see time
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Oh. Wait a minute that is still
going to decade strong now at

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a live show Monday. Any. Away I am here
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you the state of the B M C From

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a financial perspective and at this point
I think I've run out of ways to sum up

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what's been another successful year so I
guess. I guess this kind of to me this

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sums it up. Spiny scrolls of
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How about What if I said fiscally
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fresh ideas here when I have to resort to
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a row and that's what you're left
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a Green is used in our recently completed
annual audit Instead the auditors agreed

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that the Belmont media
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a fiscally responsible nonprofit organization
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the generous funding that
the MC receives four times

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a year from Comcast and horizon
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a first class media facility and it's
also because Jeff to be emcees executive

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director regularly meets with our entire
board of directors to discuss and

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deliberate how those funds could
be best spent while maintaining

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a few monies in reserve and one of the
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this year was

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a van which maybe some of you have seen
around town it's greatly improved the B M

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C's ability to go out and cover all the
town's big events for example LA next

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week's big Belmont Watertown Thanksgiving
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edition between the long time
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a part of the whole production Jeremy and
Adam will be running things on Turkey Day

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over at Harris Field the and again that's
having that van is you building to bring

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and make that production even bigger and
better than that it might have been so on

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that note I want to introduce Jeff our
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He's going to tell you about those new
wheels and many other good things that have

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happened here over the last
twelve months Jeff. Thank you.

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Welcome everyone thank you Todd and you
were you've been through all ninety three

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editions of the game. OK. I'm going
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a ten year report that we did
for the Board of Selectmen. In

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support of the re franchising process
that took place that perhaps some of you

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participated in and heard about and. Wanted
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a look at that that really encompasses

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a lot of what we've been doing and
in fact what we are planning to do.

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And it's also going to serve really
as. The foundation for next year

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which is our ten year anniversary
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a ten year report. With pictures

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a lot of the statistics. A lot of information
about what we have done and again

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what we are planning to celebrate that and
if you think this party was great just

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wait till next year right.
So on one hand we have spent

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a lot of time. What I would call document
creation right which is probably better

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than document destruction
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a lot of documents relative to our strategic
planning project and to our to the

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very franchising process with Comcast and
we've been out in the community getting

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feedback we've been gathering information
from the schools from the government and

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from you all that's on one hand and as I
say next year the ten year anniversary

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we're going to present it and then
report this year it's going to be

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a little more serendipitous. So we're
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a little bit about what we've been doing
and what we're going to do and I think we

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have some photographs that Adam is
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a little bit about the staff because we've
had some changes this year as well at

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the end. And I don't know if. Like to
recognize recognize one person who just

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walked in Representative Dave Rogers if
you'd like to stand thank you very much.

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We'll be speaking next so please start
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past in the past year we spent

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a lot of time on the franchise process
and you can roll those pictures any time

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you'd like to have them all just you know
rate them this is something that it's

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interesting these are the old modes of
recording video we started in Archives

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Project thanks with

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a lot of help and ambition and drive from
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so lucky to have him here because he has

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a degree in archives and he works
here at the Media Center and we have

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a digital archives that we're starting we're
one of only two centers in the in the

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state that has started this where we're
documenting the community and it's called

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the Community archives
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a twelve thousand dollars grant from the
Community Preservation Committee to help

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us jumpstart. The operation of this so
that's something that we started this year

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that we're very proud
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a couple pictures from remote production
this is at the spelling bee It is the

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largest event that we do every year
I think there are as anybody got

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a spelling bee every year or
you're in it all right now OK.

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I think there are thousands of parents that
go through that auditorium families who

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go through every every year and we've been
doing it for seven years and we started

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it when I think we had one camera and but
we did it live and we've continued to

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live every year what people like about it
is when they're getting ready to go on

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they can watch it on television and know
when their team is coming up so. It's

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always a fun event it's a great way for
us to get out and meet the community and

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a lot of volunteers are in that you can go
to the next one if you like to have them

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. This is something new that we did
called One Billion Rising and it's

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a made maybe some of you have heard
about this campaign nationwide we have

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a couple of really passionate people talking
Olson. Novena Vogel Stacy Hammarlund

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who's a former staff member here and
they invited us and encourage us to do

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a telethon sort of program to raise awareness
about domestic of domestic violence

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and we're going to be doing
that this year as well so it's

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a new program but it's truly a
not just a local program but

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a nationwide program and I and I was one
which Maggie Rose March is also involved

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in that program as well which. I think are
one of the few Again few centers that

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took the challenge of One
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a locally. So there I am OK
So this is election Belmont

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what you saw you may or may not know that
one year last year when we won an award

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for our coverage. That was

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a couple of years ago it made me do the
fact that Mitt Romney was running for

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president could have something to do
with. We don't know we actually have

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a shot of him voting so but each year
we cover the elections and the team of

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people who volunteer every year are always
asking just before the election you know

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when do I want to be part of it I want to
I want to do the coverage and I know that

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when we haven't done it we inevitably get

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a call one time that we didn't do it we
realized OK the community wants to see this

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we're going to make an effort to do the
best that we can and that's some of the

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folks that are there Paul Roberts and
Reynolds Olson and can't Justin and I can't

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remember the fellow's name Julie who
is that like OK Mike Lee thank you OK

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next. This is an important part of what we
did in the last year the town of Belmont

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asked us in collaboration to convene

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a. Community assessment and it happens
every time the cable company these just to

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sign a contract not just with come up with
any town in Massachusetts and literally

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a town and states. To figure out what the
community needs are relative to local

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access to busk e of the bus group

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a nationally recognized consulting firm
has been doing for thirty years. Did

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a great job of convening focus groups
we didn't all line survey we did

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a lot of educational meetings which I think
were maybe the best things that came

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out of that people who didn't really
understand the process walked away and then

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said OK now I get it now I get it and
out of that we the report that I

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passed out became part of the assessment
that the selectmen entered into the public

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record and I think while I wouldn't be the
one to talk about the negotiations or

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couldn't anyway I think it
is helped our case here to

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a great deal and I get I now get calls
because of what the town of I want to put on

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their website about the process that we
went through and asking us for advice about

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how they should do it in their
town and so I think we made

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a big difference and you know like I
always hear it at meetings people say well

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what's Watertown doing what's wrong to do
and then people say what's Belmont doing

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so I think that's

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a good thing. You can go on there I don't
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run race home run five K.

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a couple of years ago and are continuing
that we'd like to expand our coverage it's

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just it's a fantastic community
event and we figured out

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a way to actually shoot the race as it's
happening and maybe next year we will

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figure out a way to do it live it's

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a little bit difficult in Belmont and
the conditions but it's it's just

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a great community event for obviously

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a very good cause. And the big
headline this year really is sports

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and the increased coverage of sports and
you know the thing that I know about

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community media and what we're doing is
nonprofit is things don't happen overnight

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you have to sort of cede the ground

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a little bit and we've been doing sports
the first year we didn't think there was

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a lot of response a second year of

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a sudden we're getting the response so we
think that's just going to keep building

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and the support for particularly
women sports where there's

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a lot of competition this year of course
the football team has come up and we have

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a competitive football team as well but
Germany and Adam deserve endless thanks for

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their dedication to it they're there last
Thursday it was really really cold out of

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course they were sitting in the van. That's
why we got the van Oh I get it and the

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volunteers were outside but. I bought them
all so much off and I think they're I

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think they're fine right it's

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a guy out of the hospital
right so you know it's we get

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a lot of response and Lucas Trego so I
don't know if he's here tonight he has

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really the star of V.H.S. T.V. V.H.S.

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Sports and we took him
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And since he came back from that he's you
know we have game day Belmont now and

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he's just producing all sorts of things I
think the coverage from Thanksgiving Day

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is going to be the best thing that we've
ever done and we're collaborating with

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Watertown in the coverage of that on
Thanksgiving so look for that. And there's

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Jeremy you know he is a really

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a happy guy and enthusiastic but I think
every picture of him looks something like

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that so I don't know what that is but that's
it the patient Park Music Festival and

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thanks to again the ambitious staff we've
expanded the way that we cover that event

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and become a really interesting
and again event where

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a lot of volunteers can participate and
just let you know we were at the last OK so

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everybody knows that guy that's

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a telethon. And Todd has been instrumental
in really driving our coverage as

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representative Berger and another
fellow you recognize there as well. And

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there is time for sports are some of
the crew that has been on there hasn't

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Victoria been on for quite

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a long time where volunteers.
And here's an event

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that was really driven by the board of
directors and really. I would say Lucia was

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one of the main drivers of that in helping
us to really raise our community profile

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town day and we actually went all
out in that to not just make

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a present for ourselves but cover the town
the funny thing is of course where we

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were located there were

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a lot of elected officials running and when
they saw the camera you know get out of

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the way just get out of the way and they
all lined up I mean later one point

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there's this line of people waiting to get
to characterise. And there's Marion Ryan

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the district attorney there's the van we
have some smaller labels on that but we're

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we're planning on putting painting that and
making it. With our logo and some other

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display to show off and it's
also of course for us it's

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a great way to transport equipment
around rather than using Adam's. Car So

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that's that that's

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a snapshot of what we've been doing
in the past year I mentioned

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a couple of other things briefly. You
know I said something about seating the

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ground and we do

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a lot of outreach to the schools and
government and it doesn't happen overnight

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again but this year

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a lot of school groups have come to us with
requests to start producing programs or

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start training we're starting

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a program with about much sport. Program
where the kids are going to come in and

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learn how to use the equipment and produce
their own regular program and to me

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that's that is I mean that's the goal right
there when you get that kind of group

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in here and it and I've seen how media
training and using this equipment builds

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confidence builds ability to communicate
it really does so much more than what you

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think. We also work and we have
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AC The B A S E C sport B H S P.T.O.

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So but you see what I'm saying there's

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a lot of groups of parent groups student
groups. That are asked to start producing

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programs and we've just increased
our coverage we've also. Started

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a partnership with the Belmont Historical
Society to do regular programming that's

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something we're very proud of and of
course some of the other shows that we've

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started in the last year or so is
Representative Rogers Marion Ryan the attorney

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general. Mr Attorney. Has some programs
that we started now in the next year

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and you'll see some of that in that document
I gave you really it's news and more

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news community news we've been developing

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a program unfortunately has not really
taken off yet but we are working on it too

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to make that go we're also going to be
starting a program called Belmont now

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a monthly program documentary and with
newsmakers from Belmont from government from

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schools telling us what's going on as of
this month or next month and. The and then

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sports coverage increased government access
coverage you would be surprised and I

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say this every year but it's

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a funny story the very first time we did
the work committee and we actually taped

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it hadn't been taped until then so I just
filmed it live that was it uploaded to

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the website first program. On
our website the next day I got

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a call this other meeting going to be on
and I said we just started and it's like

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people see it and they realize oh that's
something I really need that's something

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we this community needs and so the demand
started immediately three of the things

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that we're working on that have been. In
the Works is our website overhaul and

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everybody knows where the website if it
works. The tendency is not to mess with it

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too much if you can keep
it working because it's

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a lot of work to do to redesign
it but we've looked at

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a lot of the feedback from the community

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a lot of the feedback from the board to
redesign the website to make it more user

428
00:36:30,72 --> 00:36:35,41
friendly to make it more interactive and
so we are working on that to freshen the

429
00:36:35,42 --> 00:36:40,52
website up as well simplify it
really and we're also working on

430
00:36:40,53 --> 00:36:45,40
a. An application mobile app
because we found that there's

431
00:36:45,41 --> 00:36:50,67
a lot of people from the cystic set watch
meetings and programs on their devices so

432
00:36:50,68 --> 00:36:55,83
we need to be able to make that much
easier for people to watch. And then we're

433
00:36:55,84 --> 00:36:58,41
looking at our all programming grid and

434
00:36:58,42 --> 00:37:03,23
a complete overhaul of that to figure out
what programs people we have some of that

435
00:37:03,24 --> 00:37:08,73
information from the surveys so that
we are making B.M. See must see T.V.

436
00:37:08,74 --> 00:37:14,73
As well. And with that I just want to
mention one more thing and then I will be

437
00:37:14,74 --> 00:37:20,03
done but I do want to just just thank the
staff because I wouldn't be able to do

438
00:37:20,04 --> 00:37:24,43
anything this center would really be nothing
without the dedication of the people

439
00:37:24,88 --> 00:37:30,28
in the in the booth and everything Julie
just Stefano. Does her job she does not

440
00:37:30,29 --> 00:37:37,25
seek the limelight ever and.
She works on the weekends.

441
00:37:38,40 --> 00:37:41,91
Comes in it does things and doesn't tell
anybody about it I mean good things you

442
00:37:41,92 --> 00:37:48,60
know she's working she's working working
as far as I know. Our newest staff

443
00:37:48,61 --> 00:37:54,26
member I'm gratified that he's on the staff
he's got his door the he got his foot

444
00:37:54,27 --> 00:38:00,26
the door and he pushes pushed his way in
because he learned he focused on what he

445
00:38:00,27 --> 00:38:05,18
needed to know to do a better job and
he's kept at it and kept at it and he's

446
00:38:05,19 --> 00:38:09,69
a great addition he's overcome some obstacles
to be where he is today and I'm just

447
00:38:09,70 --> 00:38:13,75
looking for a lot more growth
from Jeremy as well and he brings

448
00:38:13,76 --> 00:38:20,67
a lot of passion to the job. Adam does and
very. I don't know what to say about him

449
00:38:20,90 --> 00:38:25,15
he probably doesn't know what to say about
himself but he's he's he's the answer

450
00:38:25,16 --> 00:38:30,71
man again somebody who comes out every
week and I don't even have to ask him and

451
00:38:30,72 --> 00:38:35,07
it's not that I have formed the question
yet and he's already doing the thing that

452
00:38:35,11 --> 00:38:40,54
needs to be done and we wouldn't have half
this facility we have without him it's

453
00:38:40,55 --> 00:38:45,85
very clear. And then Patty my Halasz
as the administrative manager has been

454
00:38:45,86 --> 00:38:50,31
a great addition and is really keeping
us organized and is that was the missing

455
00:38:50,32 --> 00:38:52,54
link really for us to be able to be of

456
00:38:53,16 --> 00:38:59,18
a more enabled. Media Center and of course
the other the other employees that I

457
00:38:59,19 --> 00:39:01,48
think the staff that
Chad has mentioned E.J.

458
00:39:01,95 --> 00:39:08,51
Aram. Melinda Gordon and. Ask and Julie

459
00:39:08,52 --> 00:39:14,62
inland who actually took the place. Of
one guy Paul Kerry who's in the audience

460
00:39:14,63 --> 00:39:20,82
tonight all you want to
stand up back there. And.

461
00:39:21,91 --> 00:39:28,68
Melinda and Julie he's watching your coverage
so be careful. And they have come in

462
00:39:28,69 --> 00:39:28,96
and done

463
00:39:28,97 --> 00:39:36,92
a great job of keeping. Of filling
where filling job filling policies. So

464
00:39:37,40 --> 00:39:43,42
that's all I. I have to say and I don't
know who's next. Jeff thank you very much.

465
00:39:48,57 --> 00:39:53,78
Earlier I was going to say about Jeff that
I can assure you he's the maestro for

466
00:39:53,79 --> 00:40:00,40
the accomplishments that have been made
by the Media Center and he is well known

467
00:40:00,41 --> 00:40:06,78
not only to us here in Belmont but
throughout the access world in

468
00:40:06,79 --> 00:40:11,11
Massachusetts and and somewhat nationally
as well and we're very fortunate to have

469
00:40:11,12 --> 00:40:17,99
Jeff with us Dems and Kaplan is another
effective board member. Tamzin

470
00:40:18,34 --> 00:40:23,71
deals helps us deal with a lot of personnel
and kinds of issues because that's

471
00:40:23,81 --> 00:40:29,10
a part of our training and when we were
planning this evening's activities she

472
00:40:29,11 --> 00:40:34,34
indicated that she knew Joseph to virus
our personal link and that he lived in

473
00:40:34,35 --> 00:40:39,52
Belmont and we jumped at the opportunity
to have her invite Joseph to be our

474
00:40:39,53 --> 00:40:42,70
speaker this evening so Tams
and I will turn it to you.

475
00:40:46,00 --> 00:40:52,75
Thank you thank you Chad I was so
inspired by Jeff's remarks Jeff is

476
00:40:52,76 --> 00:40:59,52
amazing and I'd like to another round of
applause for just thank you. Thank you I

477
00:40:59,53 --> 00:41:04,21
have to tell you I am so excited about
Joseph being here and I'm so happy to be

478
00:41:04,22 --> 00:41:08,41
able to introduce him I haven't felt happier
since they started paving propellor

479
00:41:08,42 --> 00:41:15,34
road to. What could be better
for. Joseph is one of the

480
00:41:15,35 --> 00:41:21,91
smartest coolest people
I know yes and he is

481
00:41:21,92 --> 00:41:27,20
very it's amazing that he's even here
because he's here from Washington D.C.

482
00:41:27,21 --> 00:41:32,77
Today in spite of to cancel flights to
postpone flights one canceled flights and he

483
00:41:32,78 --> 00:41:37,47
literally just just got here so thank you
from the board of directors for being

484
00:41:37,48 --> 00:41:42,36
here Joseph We really appreciate your
effort Joseph is currently the senior vice

485
00:41:42,37 --> 00:41:46,74
president of diversity and innovation for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

486
00:41:47,16 --> 00:41:50,47
in Washington D.C. He
formerly was a G.B.H.

487
00:41:50,48 --> 00:41:55,67
For many years as executive director
of La Plaza and previous to that as

488
00:41:55,68 --> 00:42:02,04
a director and serious series editor
at American experience Joseph is an

489
00:42:02,05 --> 00:42:07,10
extremely accomplished filmmaker producer
executive producer and some of his

490
00:42:07,11 --> 00:42:10,57
accomplishments include
executive producer of

491
00:42:11,50 --> 00:42:17,36
a documentary. And baseball
story which won an Emmy Award.

492
00:42:18,11 --> 00:42:25,07
Thank you thank you also produced some
documentaries that you may have seen on

493
00:42:25,08 --> 00:42:29,42
American experience such as the zoot suit
riots about riots in the one nine hundred

494
00:42:29,43 --> 00:42:29,83
forty S.

495
00:42:29,84 --> 00:42:36,28
In Los Angeles Remember the Alamo both
for American experience and Joseph also

496
00:42:36,38 --> 00:42:38,05
during his years at G.B.H.

497
00:42:38,92 --> 00:42:45,00
Was executive producer of Maria Hinojosa
show one on one which is also an Emmy

498
00:42:45,01 --> 00:42:51,38
Award winner thank you thank you again
we're very grateful to have you here

499
00:42:51,82 --> 00:42:58,46
and we look forward to your remarks. I.

500
00:42:59,78 --> 00:43:05,12
Thank you very much it is great to be here
in the Boston area in Belmont and this

501
00:43:05,14 --> 00:43:10,10
place that over the years
became my home. In

502
00:43:10,11 --> 00:43:14,51
a place where I have many many close friends
some of whom are here tonight so thank

503
00:43:14,52 --> 00:43:21,21
you all for showing up I appreciate the
support. I say became my home because I

504
00:43:21,22 --> 00:43:23,84
grew up in San Antonio in Texas

505
00:43:23,88 --> 00:43:29,84
a place geographically and culturally
very far from here in my family goes back

506
00:43:29,85 --> 00:43:33,52
there many many generations stood before
the Alamo where one of those families

507
00:43:33,53 --> 00:43:38,32
Mexican families that never crossed the
border the border crossed us. And for many

508
00:43:38,33 --> 00:43:43,23
years I never thought I would be able to
call another place home but I love it here

509
00:43:44,02 --> 00:43:49,02
and although I work in Washington I
come home as often as I can I feel very

510
00:43:49,03 --> 00:43:51,39
connected to this place and to

511
00:43:51,40 --> 00:43:57,60
a community of people who I love very
much and I was thinking about all that

512
00:43:57,61 --> 00:44:02,68
connection as I was preparing these remarks.
And I was struck by the fact that in

513
00:44:02,69 --> 00:44:03,46
the end I'm kind of

514
00:44:03,63 --> 00:44:09,26
a local kind of guy and I think maybe we
all really are right we like to belong to

515
00:44:09,27 --> 00:44:10,30
a place to

516
00:44:10,31 --> 00:44:17,19
a small place. And so when Thompson Kaplan
called and asked me to speak I didn't

517
00:44:17,20 --> 00:44:24,12
hesitate. One because no one says
no to Tammy. It's just not done.

518
00:44:25,23 --> 00:44:29,20
And two because my lovely wife money
is here even though I'm in D.C.

519
00:44:29,68 --> 00:44:30,32
And I don't get

520
00:44:30,33 --> 00:44:35,62
a chance to see her very much during the
week and she's not in the studio but I

521
00:44:35,63 --> 00:44:42,05
hope she's still outside listening. So
it was an easy decision so thank you to

522
00:44:42,09 --> 00:44:48,08
Tamsin and to Jeff for the invitation and
it's great to be here with selectman

523
00:44:48,36 --> 00:44:53,69
Sammy and former selectman frenzy and
of course State Representative Rogers.

524
00:44:56,28 --> 00:44:57,44
Someone to share with you tonight

525
00:44:58,03 --> 00:45:02,05
a few things about myself about public
television and public radio which is the

526
00:45:02,06 --> 00:45:03,11
system in which I work

527
00:45:03,15 --> 00:45:07,30
a little bit about the overlap between our
system and the system of community media

528
00:45:07,30 --> 00:45:14,06
. Coming on his picture. Of which
the Belmont Media Center is

529
00:45:14,07 --> 00:45:19,59
a part of and all conclude with some remarks
on innovation and the future of public

530
00:45:19,60 --> 00:45:23,48
service media and when I see public service
media I'm really talking about both the

531
00:45:23,52 --> 00:45:27,41
traditional public television Public
Radio and community media and if there's

532
00:45:27,42 --> 00:45:31,72
a theme to what I'm speaking about tonight
as I reviewed this I think it's really

533
00:45:31,73 --> 00:45:36,76
about change and those of us in public
service media need to be ready to respond to

534
00:45:36,77 --> 00:45:43,63
change. So I grew up in

535
00:45:43,64 --> 00:45:44,38
a very Mexican

536
00:45:44,39 --> 00:45:47,14
a bit in San Antonio and I say Mexican
because back then that's what we call

537
00:45:47,15 --> 00:45:48,45
ourselves even the word in the U.S.

538
00:45:48,46 --> 00:45:52,39
Right no one said Hispanic or Latino or
even Mexican American and my the world was

539
00:45:52,40 --> 00:45:56,27
very easy back then it was intent to tell
you anywhere we were there was Mexicans

540
00:45:56,28 --> 00:45:59,35
and if you want to the north side of town
that's where they be Anglos lived and

541
00:45:59,36 --> 00:46:02,43
there was a section for African-Americans
for black people it was just like

542
00:46:02,99 --> 00:46:06,35
a pilot you could have been to three
is really easy and my dad was

543
00:46:06,36 --> 00:46:07,39
a sheet metal mechanic at

544
00:46:07,40 --> 00:46:11,24
a local Air Force Base and my mom took care
of us kids and even though was kind of

545
00:46:11,25 --> 00:46:15,24
a tough neighborhood a rough place I
felt pretty safe it was sort of a. Like

546
00:46:15,25 --> 00:46:21,01
a Mexican Mayberry sort of life right
easy you know surrounded by family and

547
00:46:21,02 --> 00:46:24,39
friends and family neighborhoods it was
great and we were the first in the

548
00:46:24,40 --> 00:46:27,19
neighborhood to have a T.V. And
it was a black and white T.V.

549
00:46:27,20 --> 00:46:31,91
This was probably this probably four or
five years also was the late fifty's. And

550
00:46:32,33 --> 00:46:36,59
for me and I think for us it was magic right
this little box that had pictures and

551
00:46:36,60 --> 00:46:41,16
you and you could hear sound and my mother
and people the neighborhood are really

552
00:46:41,17 --> 00:46:42,87
interested because the divorce had a T.V.

553
00:46:42,88 --> 00:46:46,40
And they wanted to watch in the kids
especially but my mother didn't want all these

554
00:46:46,41 --> 00:46:48,79
Ruffins in our house so
she would put the T.V.

555
00:46:48,80 --> 00:46:53,70
In the window and into the garage and in
the morning the kids from the neighborhood

556
00:46:53,71 --> 00:46:59,12
come with sit outside and we'd watch we'd
watch Captain Kangaroo doesn't remember

557
00:46:59,13 --> 00:47:02,11
Captain Kangaroo. And I think he had

558
00:47:02,12 --> 00:47:07,37
a sidekick named Mr Green Jeans that's
right in there the dancing bear right now

559
00:47:07,38 --> 00:47:12,52
crazy as that but it was it was great and
it was sort of magic and it was through

560
00:47:12,53 --> 00:47:15,91
television that I really learned
to speak English without

561
00:47:15,95 --> 00:47:19,84
a Mexican or Texan accent. T.V.

562
00:47:19,85 --> 00:47:24,68
Got me started on the road to sort of
Walter Cronkite English and that job was

563
00:47:24,69 --> 00:47:30,85
finished at the local parochial school by
some very demanding one. So it was not

564
00:47:30,86 --> 00:47:33,50
that long ago that we were
amazed by black and white T.V.

565
00:47:33,65 --> 00:47:38,76
Which now seem so primitive. And in our
lifetimes we've seen the appearance and the

566
00:47:38,77 --> 00:47:44,56
disappearance of things like the transistor
radio and it tracks cassette tapes

567
00:47:44,79 --> 00:47:46,33
V.H.S. Tapes V.H.S.

568
00:47:46,34 --> 00:47:53,18
Machines Sony beta and then in the early
seventy's this thing called cable

569
00:47:53,19 --> 00:47:58,55
sort of emerged right and we would not be
here tonight if it weren't for cable so

570
00:47:58,56 --> 00:48:04,99
the past fifty years of this incredible
technological run force but when I think of

571
00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:10,22
technology I think of it on its own as an
empty promise. What matters to me and I

572
00:48:10,23 --> 00:48:15,15
think to all of us is what we do with
technology so the coolness of technology is

573
00:48:15,16 --> 00:48:17,48
really not enough for me
you need to come with

574
00:48:17,49 --> 00:48:24,41
a bigger idea attached if it's to
mean something. And I've been very

575
00:48:24,42 --> 00:48:30,20
lucky to work most of my career in
mission focused media and that is by by

576
00:48:30,21 --> 00:48:34,63
intention and by design make Well that's
not entirely true early on I had dreams of

577
00:48:34,64 --> 00:48:38,31
becoming a famous filmmaker that
didn't work out. But I found

578
00:48:38,32 --> 00:48:44,99
a home in public television soon after
college and I stayed so what began on that

579
00:48:45,00 --> 00:48:47,81
lawn outside my home in San
Antonio I think it was sort of

580
00:48:47,82 --> 00:48:52,48
a love affair with media and with my
parents support after I start producing

581
00:48:52,58 --> 00:48:53,100
content kind of early at

582
00:48:54,01 --> 00:48:58,75
a very early age some of it under pretty
weird or inappropriate conditions I would

583
00:48:58,77 --> 00:49:00,86
say my first paid job as

584
00:49:00,86 --> 00:49:05,43
a photographer was at the age of
twelve and I would hustle patrons at

585
00:49:05,44 --> 00:49:11,45
a local bar for Polaroid pictures. Of them
with the women they were drinking with

586
00:49:11,65 --> 00:49:16,04
when looking back to probably not
their wives I never took two bucks

587
00:49:16,05 --> 00:49:18,45
a pop for and my dad would
front me the money for

588
00:49:18,46 --> 00:49:23,70
a pack of Polaroid film and I and I double
my money basically and then pay him back

589
00:49:24,02 --> 00:49:28,99
and my father I think thought he was
teaching me about being an entrepreneur I

590
00:49:29,05 --> 00:49:33,87
think it was just an excuse so you could
spend all day at the bar. And I spent the

591
00:49:33,88 --> 00:49:39,09
day there too but before too long I moved
on I started. Developing my own negatives

592
00:49:39,10 --> 00:49:42,02
and printing black and white photos and
then my brother and I started making Super

593
00:49:42,03 --> 00:49:45,86
eight movies modeled after these four
films that we saw on the local public

594
00:49:45,87 --> 00:49:51,47
television station on Channel Nine and
Santa Tonio and those movies were sort of

595
00:49:51,48 --> 00:49:56,07
a window to a world that I desperately
wanted to be a part of and to make

596
00:49:56,08 --> 00:49:57,35
a long story short within

597
00:49:57,36 --> 00:50:01,48
a few years I was accepted to Boston
University the first time I moved here and I

598
00:50:01,49 --> 00:50:05,66
studied it be you and I was here for four
years and then soon after completing deal

599
00:50:05,67 --> 00:50:05,83
within

600
00:50:05,84 --> 00:50:09,31
a couple of years I started working in
public television I started at Kentucky

601
00:50:09,32 --> 00:50:13,87
educational television in Lexington.
And I became I started as

602
00:50:13,88 --> 00:50:16,79
a camera and I became a
director and then eventually

603
00:50:16,80 --> 00:50:21,23
a writer producer and eventually an executive
producer and about twenty years ago I

604
00:50:21,24 --> 00:50:22,73
arrived to dilute G.B.H.

605
00:50:22,74 --> 00:50:28,37
And I stayed for fifteen years and then
five years ago I left media production of

606
00:50:28,38 --> 00:50:30,23
it all behind and I took a job at C.P.B.

607
00:50:30,88 --> 00:50:31,62
And I say I left

608
00:50:31,63 --> 00:50:36,61
a media production because it seemed to be
we have no editorial or programming role

609
00:50:37,37 --> 00:50:43,31
and we are strictly funders of public media
the official language is that we are

610
00:50:43,74 --> 00:50:49,12
this stewards of the American people's
investment in public media what that means

611
00:50:49,13 --> 00:50:53,79
is that Congress on October first gives
us them with the federal protection for

612
00:50:54,00 --> 00:50:58,62
public television and public radio and
then we disperse those funds and we manage

613
00:50:58,63 --> 00:51:01,72
those funds according to the Public
Broadcasting Act of one thousand nine hundred

614
00:51:01,73 --> 00:51:02,23
fifty seven

615
00:51:02,24 --> 00:51:07,70
a document on which we base which we all
our work and we go back constantly and

616
00:51:07,71 --> 00:51:08,96
refer to that document almost on

617
00:51:08,96 --> 00:51:12,57
a daily basis can we do this can we do
what is the statute say because we have to

618
00:51:13,21 --> 00:51:17,03
be very careful and stick to the to the
rules of the statute otherwise that money

619
00:51:17,03 --> 00:51:19,94
could disappear. So I think of that act as

620
00:51:19,95 --> 00:51:24,61
a very sort of artful work that established
public media in this country as

621
00:51:24,62 --> 00:51:29,69
a public private partnership limited
government support without government

622
00:51:29,70 --> 00:51:33,66
interference and when I say limited government
support each of you in this room and

623
00:51:33,68 --> 00:51:35,18
every American contributes

624
00:51:35,22 --> 00:51:39,51
a dollar thirty six per year to the public
television public radio through taxes.

625
00:51:41,38 --> 00:51:45,63
Local stations leverage those federal
dollars and they raise more money in their

626
00:51:45,64 --> 00:51:49,93
own communities and I think of the Public
Broadcasting Act as part of the legacy of

627
00:51:50,46 --> 00:51:50,100
L.B.J.

628
00:51:51,23 --> 00:51:57,13
Who signed it into law. So we make grants
to say sions and public media institutions

629
00:51:57,41 --> 00:52:02,98
and I work with discretionary dollars
earmarked for television projects at C.P.B.

630
00:52:02,99 --> 00:52:06,78
The world is divided between television and
radio I work almost exclusively on the

631
00:52:06,79 --> 00:52:12,28
television side and most of my work is
in support of content projects. So the

632
00:52:12,29 --> 00:52:13,72
origins of public media go back

633
00:52:13,73 --> 00:52:18,13
a lot further but I think of the Public
Broadcasting Act as the start of the modern

634
00:52:18,60 --> 00:52:25,53
public there so unlike public media community
media institutions like the Belmont

635
00:52:25,54 --> 00:52:27,74
media center as

636
00:52:27,75 --> 00:52:32,11
a comet or peg stations are commonly known
are supported by cable operators in

637
00:52:32,12 --> 00:52:36,70
accordance with Section six eleven of
the Communications Act which says that

638
00:52:36,71 --> 00:52:41,28
a local cable franchising authority like
the town of Belmont can require cable

639
00:52:41,29 --> 00:52:47,59
operators to set aside channels for public
education or governmental use B. E.G.

640
00:52:47,60 --> 00:52:53,30
Peg so the main difference I think between
our systems is that we are primarily

641
00:52:53,38 --> 00:52:56,95
over the air channels and you're primarily
cable channels and I see it primarily

642
00:52:56,96 --> 00:53:00,11
because we're all trying to explore different
ways to deliver content right with

643
00:53:00,12 --> 00:53:04,49
both streaming content primarily
so the funding models also differ

644
00:53:04,50 --> 00:53:09,87
a little bit. The federal dollars that
we give to stations represent on average

645
00:53:09,91 --> 00:53:11,23
about fifteen percent of

646
00:53:11,24 --> 00:53:16,43
a station's budget now that that varies for
fifty percent of us station like W T V

647
00:53:16,44 --> 00:53:18,36
H But for

648
00:53:18,79 --> 00:53:24,07
a small radio station on an Indian reservation
west it may represent eighty percent

649
00:53:24,11 --> 00:53:29,86
of their budget so it varies you know
support for local cable operators through

650
00:53:30,11 --> 00:53:34,64
that fund paid channels represent
significantly more than that I think most.

651
00:53:36,48 --> 00:53:41,57
Community Media channels probably ninety
percent of the budget comes from the from

652
00:53:41,58 --> 00:53:48,19
the cable companies so because public media
stations television radio or over the

653
00:53:48,20 --> 00:53:51,62
air were subject to
oversight by the F.C.C.

654
00:53:51,62 --> 00:53:55,45
. And Bill not media is not subject
to oversight of the F.C.C.

655
00:53:55,58 --> 00:53:59,80
So some of those are some of the
differences in our systems but there are

656
00:53:59,81 --> 00:54:05,41
similarities and I think
the key similarity is is

657
00:54:05,42 --> 00:54:11,10
a shared commitment to what I call
localism. I think of Public Media Public

658
00:54:11,11 --> 00:54:13,13
Television Public Radio's
greatest strength as

659
00:54:13,14 --> 00:54:15,07
a system is our presence in more than

660
00:54:15,08 --> 00:54:19,09
a thousand communities across the country
we have about nine hundred radio stations

661
00:54:19,42 --> 00:54:25,28
and almost four hundred television stations
and you're very blessed here to have an

662
00:54:25,30 --> 00:54:28,79
abundance of public media you
have first of all G.B.H.

663
00:54:28,80 --> 00:54:29,31
Which is

664
00:54:30,20 --> 00:54:34,44
a major supplier of television content to
the system and they're an emerging power

665
00:54:34,45 --> 00:54:36,36
and radio as well and you have W.B.

666
00:54:36,37 --> 00:54:43,13
York which has this great legacy of of
radio journalism so what makes the Belmont

667
00:54:43,15 --> 00:54:48,56
media center unique I think is your service
to the local community and some of that

668
00:54:48,58 --> 00:54:52,89
material that Jeff showed us I think is
fantastic. It's what we in the world of

669
00:54:52,90 --> 00:54:57,63
communication called hyper localism your
community in the end is your greatest

670
00:54:57,64 --> 00:55:01,60
asset so it's reassuring to see so many
of our neighbors here and so many of your

671
00:55:01,61 --> 00:55:04,86
neighbors on the screen so it's a B.B.

672
00:55:04,87 --> 00:55:10,56
We place a high value on this idea
of localism but in my opinion if

673
00:55:10,57 --> 00:55:14,84
a local public still edition station is
really broadcasting content it's not really

674
00:55:14,94 --> 00:55:19,21
fulfilling its mission we have to be
more than just television and radio.

675
00:55:21,94 --> 00:55:26,02
And stations that have deep and meaningful
connections to their local communities

676
00:55:26,03 --> 00:55:30,09
are the ones that ultimately
will survive and prosper. And

677
00:55:30,10 --> 00:55:34,93
a big part of my job is supporting content
around specific issues that is used by

678
00:55:34,94 --> 00:55:39,09
local communities local stations excuse me
to build connections to different parts

679
00:55:39,13 --> 00:55:43,78
of their communities you know we do things
like American graduate which is about

680
00:55:43,79 --> 00:55:48,27
the dropout crisis so in addition to making
content grants we also make grants in

681
00:55:48,28 --> 00:55:52,53
support of engagement efforts stations all
across the country and help them build

682
00:55:52,54 --> 00:55:56,70
connections with foundations with community
leaders education leaders civic leaders

683
00:55:57,39 --> 00:56:04,33
with caring adults. Who want to
help children succeed and the data

684
00:56:04,34 --> 00:56:06,85
tell us that with our national local
partners we're actually making

685
00:56:06,86 --> 00:56:11,12
a difference and that effort as I said is
called American graduate and you should

686
00:56:11,13 --> 00:56:13,71
look it up it's actually really amazing
and it's the kind of thing that people

687
00:56:13,72 --> 00:56:18,34
don't imagine public television and public
radio and we also do similar things with

688
00:56:18,35 --> 00:56:19,72
returning veterans and we have

689
00:56:19,73 --> 00:56:25,07
a project called veterans coming home. It's
around the issue of veterans from Iraq

690
00:56:25,08 --> 00:56:29,52
and Afghanistan men and women who serve
the country and who need our help in

691
00:56:29,61 --> 00:56:35,91
reintegrating as they return home so our
work is very much. Very much about content

692
00:56:35,92 --> 00:56:41,60
but very much about engagement these
days so in much the same way I think the

693
00:56:41,65 --> 00:56:43,54
Belmont Media Center is more than just

694
00:56:43,58 --> 00:56:48,33
a media center and I think we saw that on
the screen so the bigger idea behind all

695
00:56:48,34 --> 00:56:53,30
this great technology is that the center
has become a part of a cultural fabric

696
00:56:53,31 --> 00:56:59,76
a bill much. Like the like the Belmont
Memorial Library like the underwood pool

697
00:57:00,32 --> 00:57:05,38
the schools the town meeting and it's
important not just because it's the right

698
00:57:05,39 --> 00:57:09,84
thing to do but I think it will help
ensure your success in the long run and I

699
00:57:09,85 --> 00:57:14,44
think you're doing the right thing so. So
in my world public television stations

700
00:57:14,45 --> 00:57:18,100
that engage with their communities have
more members. And they have members who

701
00:57:19,01 --> 00:57:24,43
write bigger checks. And those stations
have better connections to foundations and

702
00:57:24,44 --> 00:57:28,21
those from that foundation support that
work in short stations that understand

703
00:57:28,22 --> 00:57:34,33
their role in the community are doing
well by doing good. So all of this is

704
00:57:34,34 --> 00:57:38,03
important because if you remember that
list of technologies that I ran through

705
00:57:38,04 --> 00:57:42,34
earlier the Walkman the transistor radio
the cassette all that stuff the takeaway

706
00:57:42,35 --> 00:57:45,83
from that list is that things change
and they change sometimes very quickly

707
00:57:46,59 --> 00:57:51,39
technologies coming though. And
with change comes challenge

708
00:57:53,61 --> 00:57:59,91
and it's challenge for both public media
and community media. I'm sure many of you

709
00:57:59,92 --> 00:58:04,88
are familiar with the term cord cutter
people who are not using cable anymore and

710
00:58:04,89 --> 00:58:10,74
just going to Internet service. Some people
especially young people are saying no

711
00:58:10,75 --> 00:58:11,83
to cable and watching T.V.

712
00:58:11,84 --> 00:58:16,82
On their desktops and they're like Times.
And some like me are going ot tea which

713
00:58:16,83 --> 00:58:22,03
stands for over the top so I have maybe
some of the also to have Apple T.V.

714
00:58:22,71 --> 00:58:26,95
So I can see I can bypass the cable
system if I want and on an Apple T.V.

715
00:58:26,96 --> 00:58:32,08
I have an app that connects me to Netflix
connects me to Showtime to H.B.O.

716
00:58:32,09 --> 00:58:35,30
Go And what's interesting is I made

717
00:58:35,31 --> 00:58:40,55
a call recently I was making confession
here I've been in Belmont how many years my

718
00:58:40,56 --> 00:58:43,29
wife is now here I think it's seventeen
eighteen years we're actually moving the

719
00:58:43,30 --> 00:58:49,45
world I'm. Not very far just across
the road. And they offer R.C.

720
00:58:49,46 --> 00:58:53,09
And cable like it was just because I was
writing this at the airport when I was

721
00:58:53,10 --> 00:58:54,28
stuck I called R.C.M.

722
00:58:54,29 --> 00:58:58,26
Just to check on something and I said well
what if I decide not to get cable and I

723
00:58:58,27 --> 00:59:00,89
just order an Internet
package do I have to pay

724
00:59:00,90 --> 00:59:07,21
a peg fee and the person on the
phone said no surprise. So

725
00:59:07,47 --> 00:59:12,56
that's something for something to think
about because the big fear is how you

726
00:59:12,57 --> 00:59:18,17
survive. It's something for us to think
about too because most of our viewership is

727
00:59:18,18 --> 00:59:23,90
not over the years through cable so
but on Apple T.V. There is a P.B.S.

728
00:59:23,90 --> 00:59:27,79
. So we're thinking about
I don't remember seeing

729
00:59:27,80 --> 00:59:34,76
a community media app that was localized
to my Washington area location so it's

730
00:59:35,46 --> 00:59:40,10
things we need to think about something
else to consider is a planned F.C.C.

731
00:59:40,11 --> 00:59:42,62
Spectrum auction I don't know if
any of you know that the F.C.C.

732
00:59:42,82 --> 00:59:47,26
Is planning to free up a lot of
digital spectrum for use to create

733
00:59:47,27 --> 00:59:52,15
a more robust mobile system and
they are offering options to

734
00:59:52,16 --> 00:59:55,31
a bunch of television stations with that
part of the spectrum the television

735
00:59:55,32 --> 01:00:01,96
spectrum is very desirable for mobile
carriers the last time they heard this I mean

736
01:00:01,97 --> 01:00:04,71
I haven't confirmed this I heard at a
meeting that the last time the F.C.C.

737
01:00:04,72 --> 01:00:08,64
Had an auction eighty percent of the
spectrum they freed up went to variety and

738
01:00:08,65 --> 01:00:11,77
A.T.T. . So what will

739
01:00:11,78 --> 01:00:16,23
a really robust over the air mobile system
mean for cable companies subscriptions

740
01:00:16,42 --> 01:00:20,53
and revenues that's something to think
about and what will the impact be on

741
01:00:20,54 --> 01:00:24,76
computing media institutions like the I
my Media Center and what does it mean for

742
01:00:24,77 --> 01:00:29,14
public television stations radio by the
way is not in fact not affected by this

743
01:00:29,15 --> 01:00:33,54
auction so these are the kinds of things
we have to wrestle with with and think

744
01:00:33,54 --> 01:00:39,42
about all the time the thing is I'm not
here to. To rain on your parade I don't

745
01:00:39,43 --> 01:00:41,64
think there's a need to panic I think
cable's going to be around for

746
01:00:41,66 --> 01:00:46,91
a really long time but those of us who
work in public service media need to

747
01:00:46,92 --> 01:00:52,39
anticipate changes in technology and we
have to innovate in response and more than

748
01:00:52,41 --> 01:00:58,00
anything we have to advocate for our
communities the Public Broadcasting Act and

749
01:00:58,73 --> 01:01:03,63
the requirement that cable companies sponsor
things like the Belmont media center

750
01:01:03,64 --> 01:01:10,26
didn't just happen people made them happen
so we have to be very vigilant. In the

751
01:01:10,27 --> 01:01:14,39
end I think the media centers commitment
to the local community is what will secure

752
01:01:14,40 --> 01:01:18,37
your future. I said at the
start of my remarks that I'm

753
01:01:18,38 --> 01:01:23,07
a local guy I think that I think we're
all local and I think we all appreciate

754
01:01:23,08 --> 01:01:29,39
local. And no one can provide the service
to Belmont that you do the way you do it

755
01:01:29,68 --> 01:01:33,37
so you're in a very unique
position I watched Celeste under

756
01:01:33,38 --> 01:01:39,87
a really folksy interview which is great
Susan Spicer you think your name is on

757
01:01:39,88 --> 01:01:44,59
that inspirational guidance that she gives
people that I watched some of the on

758
01:01:44,60 --> 01:01:51,52
demand government. SESSIONS that you
have and certainly Todd's great sports

759
01:01:51,53 --> 01:01:57,14
programming and the joy of watching
your child at Stringer ram.

760
01:01:58,44 --> 01:02:00,75
Which I attended many of
our even better having

761
01:02:00,76 --> 01:02:06,48
a grandmother in California Watch their
grandchild on spring around the stream from

762
01:02:06,97 --> 01:02:12,42
don't want is great so I think you're
already doing the right thing. Are the

763
01:02:12,43 --> 01:02:16,60
challenges ahead Sure there are there are
challenges for both for community media

764
01:02:16,61 --> 01:02:22,69
and for Public Media. But both of us have
met challenges in the past and I think

765
01:02:22,75 --> 01:02:25,89
clearly we have a good base of
support and I think you have

766
01:02:25,90 --> 01:02:29,09
a very good base of support and you
also are and don't want to have

767
01:02:29,10 --> 01:02:34,32
a lot of very smart people here who I think
can figure out and will help you get

768
01:02:34,33 --> 01:02:38,56
through it. I think in
ten years when I have

769
01:02:38,60 --> 01:02:43,67
a vague memory of serving on that commission
in ten years the people here have

770
01:02:43,68 --> 01:02:46,42
accomplished so much. And really

771
01:02:46,76 --> 01:02:51,08
a few short years so all of you should be
very proud and I'm really honored that

772
01:02:51,09 --> 01:02:53,33
you asked me to speak
tonight so thank you.

773
01:02:54,55 --> 01:03:01,03
Thank you thank you.

774
01:03:03,26 --> 01:03:06,99
Josef will you be around people who question
is about the public broadcasting Well

775
01:03:07,01 --> 01:03:13,93
thank you thank you very much. Now
comes the time for our recognition

776
01:03:13,94 --> 01:03:17,51
and awards and I would
invite Julie distaff

777
01:03:17,52 --> 01:03:21,54
a know to come in. And to present.

778
01:03:24,88 --> 01:03:26,48
Ok going to do what all right.

779
01:03:32,43 --> 01:03:37,24
Good evening everyone my name is Patty Mahal
many of you know me as the food pantry

780
01:03:37,25 --> 01:03:41,78
director Well now my new job is here at
the Ministry of manager here at Belmont

781
01:03:41,79 --> 01:03:43,34
media center it's been

782
01:03:43,35 --> 01:03:48,85
a great four five months I've enjoyed very
much so one of my first responsibilities

783
01:03:48,86 --> 01:03:54,25
to this evening is to give out two awards
to two very special people our first

784
01:03:54,29 --> 01:04:00,06
award will be going to for Volunteer of the
year award goes to Megan Rose Marsh for

785
01:04:00,07 --> 01:04:05,01
the past four years Maggie has covered
almost every summer concert for the park

786
01:04:05,02 --> 01:04:11,80
Musical Festival through all kinds of
weather Thank you my dear. She also

787
01:04:11,81 --> 01:04:17,14
has as this past year she's helped Tommy
Olson producer raising here in Tucson and

788
01:04:17,15 --> 01:04:18,75
studio way this is

789
01:04:18,76 --> 01:04:24,45
a program created to spread awareness of
violence against women her dedication and

790
01:04:24,46 --> 01:04:30,46
enthusiasm is greatly appreciated and we
are delighted to percents you with this

791
01:04:30,47 --> 01:04:32,95
award. I

792
01:04:32,96 --> 01:04:37,97
am.

793
01:04:47,30 --> 01:04:54,08
Thank you everyone. Very
everything made me. Appreciate

794
01:04:54,09 --> 01:05:00,85
having you down for. Our second
volunteer of the year two

795
01:05:00,90 --> 01:05:05,43
a very special gentleman if you've been
by his house it's awesome to see all of

796
01:05:05,44 --> 01:05:09,29
your sculptures there
Octavia. So I tell you

797
01:05:09,30 --> 01:05:14,88
a forte is our second volunteer of the
year I take it I take it has covered

798
01:05:14,89 --> 01:05:17,99
a number of community events for
us over the past year whenever

799
01:05:17,100 --> 01:05:21,38
a call for volunteers and I can attest to
that is always showing up for all of them

800
01:05:21,63 --> 01:05:26,33
and sent out he often finds out most
recently he helped us cover Monday night

801
01:05:26,34 --> 01:05:32,23
special town meeting which I think went to
eleven o'clock twelve Yeah yeah. That's

802
01:05:32,24 --> 01:05:35,10
a commitment in itself he has become

803
01:05:35,14 --> 01:05:40,43
a regular crew member for you've on science
for the public shows we thank you for

804
01:05:40,44 --> 01:05:43,52
his commitment and are pleased
to present him with this award.

805
01:05:50,78 --> 01:05:55,30
And it was for this. OK Thank you.

806
01:06:00,17 --> 01:06:06,90
I can speak to Tavia oh so wonderful
fortitude I worked with him the other

807
01:06:06,91 --> 01:06:09,36
night at this precious
child meeting running

808
01:06:09,37 --> 01:06:13,90
a camera and Julie was having
difficulty recognizing

809
01:06:13,91 --> 01:06:20,26
a home that was in. Microphones
and Octavio solve the problem

810
01:06:20,61 --> 01:06:25,60
and then what little bit was left out
of it Julie tells me that she used

811
01:06:25,61 --> 01:06:32,45
a program called audit audit audacity to
scrub out the tone that was in the things

812
01:06:32,46 --> 01:06:39,37
of the listen to the program on.
Your computer and see the special

813
01:06:39,38 --> 01:06:45,81
town meeting it sounds like perfect
sound and thank you to Octavio. Like to

814
01:06:46,17 --> 01:06:52,78
just briefly say that
when you go to the. Your

815
01:06:52,79 --> 01:06:59,40
computer and look at these on demand
programs. You have no idea how

816
01:06:59,41 --> 01:07:04,84
much effort is taken by the
staff to put these programs on.

817
01:07:07,15 --> 01:07:13,96
An on demand system. Julie was
at the general middle school at

818
01:07:13,97 --> 01:07:18,91
four o'clock in the afternoon putting
up microphone and establishing our

819
01:07:18,92 --> 01:07:23,12
connections back to the studio so she
worked from four in the afternoon until

820
01:07:23,13 --> 01:07:29,64
almost midnight introducing that special
town meeting for this community

821
01:07:29,97 --> 01:07:36,66
and it is an example of not only the
volunteer help that we have but in Julie's

822
01:07:37,20 --> 01:07:43,91
performances as in I'm an employee of the
Belmont B.D.'s and now the board service

823
01:07:43,92 --> 01:07:48,89
awards are assisting me in the presentation
of the board service awards we Susie

824
01:07:48,90 --> 01:07:55,78
Spidey and Susie will present
the first was to Lucia.

825
01:07:59,41 --> 01:08:04,82
Thank you. Lucia Arno Bernsen has been

826
01:08:04,86 --> 01:08:11,48
a bright light on our board
I met Lucia six years

827
01:08:11,49 --> 01:08:18,34
ago at this meeting and we were
talking and dilution mentioned that

828
01:08:18,63 --> 01:08:23,62
he now I might want to consider you know
being on the board but I'm not sure and

829
01:08:23,63 --> 01:08:28,59
I'm not sure if I have the time and what
I would really contribute and without

830
01:08:28,60 --> 01:08:33,66
actually getting her approval I nominated
her for the board and it was quickly

831
01:08:33,67 --> 01:08:37,04
approved and I feel like I made

832
01:08:37,05 --> 01:08:42,66
a really good recommendation that night
because Lucia has brought so much

833
01:08:42,70 --> 01:08:49,67
dedication and passion to the board and
along with her many years of experience

834
01:08:49,71 --> 01:08:56,63
in cable and in sales and
marketing. As third generation

835
01:08:56,99 --> 01:09:03,69
Belmont resident she loves this community
and it shows in all that she did to bring

836
01:09:03,70 --> 01:09:06,08
to her role as

837
01:09:06,09 --> 01:09:10,88
a board director of the media center and
I know I'm personally going to miss her

838
01:09:10,89 --> 01:09:16,57
greatly you've been an inspiration to me
and we appreciate everything that you've

839
01:09:16,58 --> 01:09:22,86
done for the media center and are so grateful
that you're going to continue to help

840
01:09:22,87 --> 01:09:29,87
us on the marketing end of things so
I would like to. Extend this service

841
01:09:29,88 --> 01:09:36,84
award to you and thank you
for all of your your work. I

842
01:09:37,21 --> 01:09:43,04
very much I really think six years and I'm
on existing thank you very much I want

843
01:09:43,05 --> 01:09:47,85
to congratulate Erin who will continue
to bring great things to the board and I

844
01:09:47,86 --> 01:09:51,68
want to also congratulate delirious and
jelly and I know you two are the to me

845
01:09:51,73 --> 01:09:58,38
wonderful contributions in the future
and I thank you for your time. I.

846
01:10:01,98 --> 01:10:04,07
Know I have an award to give.

847
01:10:09,91 --> 01:10:16,29
I always hope to learn something one new
thing each day in my life and today I

848
01:10:16,30 --> 01:10:21,77
learned that Joseph and Ed work together
convening the Belmore media center.

849
01:10:24,84 --> 01:10:31,30
Ed has been. A stalwart and
terms of asking the right

850
01:10:31,31 --> 01:10:35,93
questions at board meetings and
sometimes we thought he was getting

851
01:10:35,97 --> 01:10:40,39
a little bit to question A Yeah.

852
01:10:42,82 --> 01:10:49,36
But the results of his question is have
made this a much better organization and

853
01:10:49,41 --> 01:10:52,29
a much more effective
organization and he has

854
01:10:52,30 --> 01:10:58,13
a particular skill in dealing with technical
issues and so we're as I announced

855
01:10:58,17 --> 01:11:01,01
earlier we're happy that
Ed will stay on and be

856
01:11:01,02 --> 01:11:05,93
a part of the technology committee moving
forward there aren't enough words that I

857
01:11:05,94 --> 01:11:12,82
could say that would describe all of
the things that Ed's done. Ed just

858
01:11:12,83 --> 01:11:16,21
recently had a serious
operation so you see him with

859
01:11:16,22 --> 01:11:22,52
a cane but he's recovering well he said
and we look forward to his continue to

860
01:11:22,53 --> 01:11:28,28
participate in an Ed it's with heartfelt
thanks that I present you with their

861
01:11:28,29 --> 01:11:32,43
support services. Are

862
01:11:32,44 --> 01:11:39,42
a. Photo relieved. Now that
we have the largest and

863
01:11:39,43 --> 01:11:45,88
that you're wearing an air and
filling the board seat and now I'm

864
01:11:45,89 --> 01:11:52,51
a past board member. Big
relief and I can't read can't

865
01:11:52,52 --> 01:11:57,41
believe how long it's been since they
threw my head into the ring at the border

866
01:11:57,42 --> 01:12:03,98
conveners It's been nine years and go back
to two thousand and four the town had

867
01:12:03,99 --> 01:12:10,35
put together the border conveners with the
mentioned and I decided well I'll get

868
01:12:10,36 --> 01:12:16,37
some free time let me go throw my
head into the ring and. I learned

869
01:12:16,38 --> 01:12:23,18
a lot in that nine years. Over
the nine years I think the

870
01:12:23,41 --> 01:12:27,53
board and though I Media
Center has evolved in

871
01:12:27,54 --> 01:12:32,67
a positive way of the time
much has been done to build up

872
01:12:33,05 --> 01:12:35,83
a strong engaged board we have

873
01:12:35,84 --> 01:12:39,95
a very engaged board so you'll
learn. We're very active

874
01:12:40,90 --> 01:12:47,90
a lot of questions get asked. And
we need more expertise we need to

875
01:12:47,91 --> 01:12:53,71
bring in new board members with fresh
ideas and skills to enhance the board

876
01:12:54,81 --> 01:12:56,25
so those are things I think

877
01:12:56,50 --> 01:13:03,45
a very key to engaging and
vibrant board. But as I told

878
01:13:03,46 --> 01:13:07,71
you. Are you sure you want
to be a board member because

879
01:13:07,72 --> 01:13:13,21
a lot of the things the board members get
involved with are operations policies

880
01:13:13,22 --> 01:13:19,64
budget staffing expansion strategy
which are the same things as doing

881
01:13:19,65 --> 01:13:24,62
productions and then going out there
and doing marketing although there's

882
01:13:24,63 --> 01:13:25,02
a there's

883
01:13:25,03 --> 01:13:30,35
a space for marketing and getting out
there and helping the staff. Get all that

884
01:13:30,36 --> 01:13:32,79
done. But you'll find that there's

885
01:13:32,80 --> 01:13:38,28
a lot of challenges and things that the
board has to struggle with to keep

886
01:13:38,71 --> 01:13:41,00
excellence within yourself

887
01:13:41,01 --> 01:13:47,43
a lot of planning. And you know some
of the things technology that's my

888
01:13:47,44 --> 01:13:53,99
focus and I agree with you
Joe The technology is

889
01:13:54,00 --> 01:14:00,92
important but it's really an enabler
it's not itself the magic it's what you

890
01:14:00,93 --> 01:14:06,53
do with technology how do you take new
technology look at what's happening in the

891
01:14:06,54 --> 01:14:11,92
future and how can you take advantage of
that technology I mean you look at cell

892
01:14:11,93 --> 01:14:17,19
phones today You Tube if you don't have all
the cell phones you will have all these

893
01:14:17,20 --> 01:14:23,28
You Tube videos out there so those are some
things that the board should be looking

894
01:14:23,29 --> 01:14:28,09
at and I hope to guide the board in
terms of asking questions about their

895
01:14:28,10 --> 01:14:32,52
chronology what's coming what's what is
this going to do to us what happens when

896
01:14:32,75 --> 01:14:37,95
cable gets cut where is our revenue going
to come from I don't have answers for

897
01:14:37,96 --> 01:14:43,60
those but those are the things that we
need to look at in the future to make sure

898
01:14:43,81 --> 01:14:44,42
that we have

899
01:14:44,43 --> 01:14:48,47
a funding source but right now because
of the Cable Act That's how we get our

900
01:14:48,48 --> 01:14:55,37
franchising fees and if that. Goes away
and people are cutting the cord we

901
01:14:55,38 --> 01:15:01,09
don't get the franchising fee so how do
we keep that funding source coming so we

902
01:15:01,10 --> 01:15:06,81
need to look at different things
technology what's happening in the F.C.C.

903
01:15:06,82 --> 01:15:12,45
And you know everything so hopefully I can
ask questions and get the board to start

904
01:15:12,46 --> 01:15:17,16
thinking OK what's the future
going to be. As a set of learned

905
01:15:17,17 --> 01:15:22,16
a lot learn video production all about
nonprofits in the last couple of years

906
01:15:22,20 --> 01:15:28,94
nonprofits are different animals and then
commercial entities. And I have observed

907
01:15:29,88 --> 01:15:35,67
my fellow board members put in lots of hours
struggling with some of the challenges

908
01:15:35,68 --> 01:15:42,12
that I mentioned and they've solved a lot
of the operational challenges that P.M.C.

909
01:15:42,13 --> 01:15:48,77
Of head over the years. As the
last of the original board members

910
01:15:49,70 --> 01:15:51,59
leaving the board in B.N.C.

911
01:15:51,72 --> 01:15:54,02
In good hands. So

912
01:15:54,03 --> 01:15:58,77
a lot of challenges and work to be done
to maintain the high excellence of B M C

913
01:15:59,78 --> 01:16:02,68
and I'm extremely grateful
to have been played

914
01:16:02,69 --> 01:16:09,35
a part. On the board in the last
nine years so I'm stepping down

915
01:16:09,71 --> 01:16:15,38
I feel good about this and this allows new
blood new board members to come in and

916
01:16:15,39 --> 01:16:17,71
use their ideas thank you.

917
01:16:21,20 --> 01:16:24,99
Thank you Mike you stay up here for

918
01:16:25,00 --> 01:16:30,00
a minute in two thousand and eleven
just before our annual meeting David T.

919
01:16:30,01 --> 01:16:30,63
Nelson who was

920
01:16:30,64 --> 01:16:35,82
a founding board member passed away and in
honor of him the board created the David

921
01:16:35,83 --> 01:16:40,72
Nelson Spirit Award for lifelong
learning so it was public service in

922
01:16:40,73 --> 01:16:44,71
a spirit of adventure and in the first
time that we gave this award it was to

923
01:16:44,72 --> 01:16:49,17
Jonathan be greener Myron Jay counsel Robert
who actually still serve the community

924
01:16:49,18 --> 01:16:51,97
in the role of cable advisory
committee. But without

925
01:16:51,98 --> 01:16:58,19
a doubt. This disorder in my view could
also have been named after Ed you know for

926
01:16:58,20 --> 01:17:03,96
the same for the same reasons particularly
adventure. As Ted alluded to Ed has been

927
01:17:03,97 --> 01:17:10,69
an adventure here and has been has asked
questions that needed to be asked and

928
01:17:10,70 --> 01:17:15,09
without him i don't we certainly
wouldn't be where we are today he is

929
01:17:15,10 --> 01:17:16,50
a person who in

930
01:17:16,51 --> 01:17:22,15
a board meeting will say the question has
to be asked if we out the door and just

931
01:17:22,16 --> 01:17:29,15
go oh shoot. How did you miss
that and he's he's contributed in

932
01:17:29,16 --> 01:17:32,37
due diligence in the research he's made us

933
01:17:32,41 --> 01:17:37,15
a lot smarter than we were before by demanding
that we really do the research that

934
01:17:37,16 --> 01:17:40,78
needed to be done and without a doubt
it you deserve this award and you have

935
01:17:40,79 --> 01:17:45,70
a body this award you're the first person
I met when I came to be MC and sometimes

936
01:17:45,71 --> 01:17:50,06
your last person I saw in the evening
when I was at my house so it we spent

937
01:17:50,07 --> 01:17:53,98
a lot of time together and yeah the days
at the high school so I thought it gives

938
01:17:53,99 --> 01:18:00,82
me great pleasure to note that you are
the longest serving board member and

939
01:18:01,12 --> 01:18:01,95
also a recipient of

940
01:18:01,96 --> 01:18:09,57
a day between us and Spirit Award. Shows

941
01:18:09,58 --> 01:18:16,40
that have you. That we can we hope we
get out of words you know what we do it

942
01:18:16,41 --> 01:18:21,24
live right. There you. Know that.

943
01:18:24,20 --> 01:18:29,00
I don't know I don't know. Joy at.

944
01:18:31,89 --> 01:18:37,94
Being. OK We can never get to that
later we do it you are getting.

945
01:18:39,41 --> 01:18:40,02
Closer to.

946
01:18:50,07 --> 01:18:56,69
That Thank you. I'll give you
that. Legislation's said that.

947
01:19:00,57 --> 01:19:03,45
I mean on here that should border election
results we already know the election

948
01:19:03,46 --> 01:19:10,28
results. For closing remarks this evening.

949
01:19:16,65 --> 01:19:17,42
Would like to make

950
01:19:17,43 --> 01:19:24,28
a few comments. And I think

951
01:19:24,29 --> 01:19:24,82
she is

952
01:19:24,83 --> 01:19:33,16
a wonderful person to wrap up
this evening's comments. It

953
01:19:33,17 --> 01:19:34,40
just occurred to me that here is

954
01:19:34,41 --> 01:19:40,02
a civilian I'm no longer on the board. I
want to thank you all for coming tonight

955
01:19:40,78 --> 01:19:46,50
the to Vicki's. Victoria has to do
such an outstanding job with food and

956
01:19:46,51 --> 01:19:50,50
refreshments and this wouldn't be the
same and Patty and Jeff of organized

957
01:19:50,51 --> 01:19:56,50
a great night thank you. It's very bittersweet
tonight have really enjoyed my you

958
01:19:56,51 --> 01:20:01,00
know six years in the board each board
member brings so many special gifts and I've

959
01:20:01,01 --> 01:20:05,17
learned so much from each and every one
of them especially you know turning

960
01:20:05,75 --> 01:20:10,21
a one room Belmont High School to this
you know there was so much technology

961
01:20:10,22 --> 01:20:14,21
involved in there was so much operationally
and you know I just sat there like

962
01:20:14,22 --> 01:20:20,69
a sponge I learned so much from all of you
and you really are. And so deserving of

963
01:20:20,70 --> 01:20:27,02
that award so congratulations I grew up in
Belmont has Susie said three generations

964
01:20:27,03 --> 01:20:31,97
here and. I was thinking today about
growing up here women the one time in high

965
01:20:31,98 --> 01:20:37,23
school coming home I said Mom this town is
so boring I said Yeah the basic biggest

966
01:20:37,24 --> 01:20:38,36
excitement of my life is having

967
01:20:38,37 --> 01:20:42,46
a lime Riki Brigham's and that truly was
the big excitement Belmont's and I went

968
01:20:42,47 --> 01:20:46,45
Brigham's was in Belmont center and then
you know you decades later I'm living here

969
01:20:46,46 --> 01:20:50,66
and I'm going it's a really nice town
it's really charming and you know it's

970
01:20:50,67 --> 01:20:57,06
a great place to great community and and
I'm happy to be here and and I'm really

971
01:20:57,07 --> 01:21:01,03
happy that can buy beer and wine because
it then you can see the wine work is now

972
01:21:01,04 --> 01:21:07,48
because we do have here in line about what.
Yeah and I'd also wanted just mention

973
01:21:07,49 --> 01:21:09,92
here that we've been
talking about this is just

974
01:21:09,93 --> 01:21:15,57
a vibrant Maybe your home for all ages you
know to create to be behind the camera

975
01:21:15,58 --> 01:21:19,59
to be in front of the camera to help cover
going to govern meetings and so much

976
01:21:19,60 --> 01:21:24,95
more. Our lives can be described so much
by our stories by our cultures where we

977
01:21:24,96 --> 01:21:29,70
come from the choices we've made decisions
we've made I want to thank Jeff so much

978
01:21:29,71 --> 01:21:31,29
because personally I have

979
01:21:31,30 --> 01:21:36,67
a story that recently was told and it was
about my great uncle and he lived in the

980
01:21:36,71 --> 01:21:42,10
attic when I was a kid and he was a
composer of music and he had come from L.A.

981
01:21:42,99 --> 01:21:47,84
And there was all these newspaper clippings
he was very famous over there for all

982
01:21:47,85 --> 01:21:52,33
the classical music that he had
written and he passed away

983
01:21:52,34 --> 01:21:55,87
a long time ago but he lived in our attic
and I just remember this man you know

984
01:21:55,88 --> 01:22:00,39
with the going Harry really intense
and you know he used to teach at the

985
01:22:00,40 --> 01:22:06,45
conservatory and he'd be writing because
Frankie and me my older brothers Elvis

986
01:22:06,46 --> 01:22:10,58
Presley's blasting i got the Beach Boys
going on because they know me so it's

987
01:22:10,59 --> 01:22:11,19
a little it's

988
01:22:11,71 --> 01:22:17,98
a just you know Anyway long story short my
cousin spent efforts many years now past

989
01:22:17,99 --> 01:22:22,03
four years working to get
his music published with

990
01:22:22,04 --> 01:22:27,22
a musicologist and played and compile
and so anyway long story we did have

991
01:22:27,48 --> 01:22:33,97
a concert at the center and beach straight
and how emotional moving it was to

992
01:22:33,98 --> 01:22:39,84
hear these two Violence in The Soloist the
piano bring about twenty of about three

993
01:22:39,85 --> 01:22:46,69
hundred pieces that are sitting in these
boxes. That he's written so to hear it

994
01:22:46,70 --> 01:22:47,66
come alive and it's

995
01:22:47,67 --> 01:22:52,68
a story that the Belmont Media Center
thanks to Jeff and Jeremy was told and

996
01:22:52,69 --> 01:22:57,39
recorded and now on and archived and we
have it and it's I just can't say what that

997
01:22:57,40 --> 01:22:57,90
means but it's

998
01:22:57,91 --> 01:23:03,86
a great example of the stories that all of
people in this room I'm sure have in the

999
01:23:03,87 --> 01:23:08,96
community has and that's what the center
can do it's it's. You know you can.

1000
01:23:10,12 --> 01:23:15,90
Doesn't matter what it's about It doesn't
matter. What what it is it's it's

1001
01:23:15,91 --> 01:23:19,89
meaningful it's meaningful to you you want
to tell it it's your vision it's your

1002
01:23:19,90 --> 01:23:24,46
voice and this is the place to do it and
I couldn't be more proud to be part of

1003
01:23:24,47 --> 01:23:29,86
this team for six years and I really look
forward to sneaking in there and doing

1004
01:23:29,87 --> 01:23:34,58
some marketing here and there with Susie
and Carolyn and it's I appreciate that up

1005
01:23:34,59 --> 01:23:40,78
at unity as well so thank you again for
coming really do appreciate it and I wish

1006
01:23:40,79 --> 01:23:42,79
you all a Happy Thanksgiving to

1007
01:23:42,80 --> 01:23:49,71
a law. Our only close by saying

1008
01:23:49,76 --> 01:23:52,17
when I watch black and white T.V.

1009
01:23:52,22 --> 01:23:53,30
How do you do it was on

1010
01:23:53,31 --> 01:23:58,65
a national good night
thank you. Thank you you.

1011
01:24:00,10 --> 01:24:05,31
Thank.